A graduate of Barnard College, where she received a BA in English (and took many women’s studies classes), she has been working in publishing since 2002. Her article, “‘Justifiable Homicides’ Are on the Rise: Have Self-Defense Laws Gone Too Far?” was published in The Best American Legal Writing 2009, edited by Dahlia Lithwick. In addition to the Applied Research Center, she is also on the board of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, a national grassroots organization committed to abolishing capital punishment. She is currently working on an ongoing series of articles about the death penalty and life without parole, with the support of the Wallace Global Fund.

She lives in Brooklyn, NY.